Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

The visitor center is open daily beginning May 21st from 9am to 5pm. The reserve includes Vancouver Barracks, Officers' Row, Pearson Field, The Water Resources Education Center, and portions of the Columbia River waterfront.

The fort of the Ft. Vancouver National Historic Site—with squared-log buildings, an encircling palisade, and corner bastions—was established here by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1825. In summer, rangers dress in period costume and provide cultural demonstrations.

It was here at Fort Vancouver, a trading post operated by the British Hudson's Bay Company, that much of the Northwest's important early pioneer history unfolded. The HBC came to the Northwest in search of furs and, for most of the first half of the 19th century, was the only authority in this remote region. Fur trappers, mountain men, missionaries, explorers, and settlers all made Fort...

Headquarters and depot for Hudson's Bay Company's fur-trading operations in the 1830s and 1840s; now part of 366-acre historical reserve.

Nestled snugly today in the Vancouver/Portland metropolitan area and enveloped by its highway, rail, air, and maritime comme...rcial networks, Fort Vancouver is a gem of a park whose story as an economic and cultural center - told, in part, through engaging programs and a world-class archaeology collection - fascinatingly portends that of the modern-day Pacific Northwest. Fort Vancouver...